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Ukrainian Institute London
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The Ukrainian Institute London (UIL) is an independent charity that champions Ukrainian culture and shapes the conversation about Ukraine in the UK and beyond.
Each November, the UIL marks the Holodomor — the man-made famine of 1932–33 that killed millions of Ukrainians under Stalin. This year’s event highlights women’s experiences and the acts of resilience that helped families survive. Join us on 26 November: www.tickettailor.com/events/ukrai...
November 20, 2025 at 7:39 AM
📚 Occupation | Istoria 2025
Tue 25 Nov, 18:30
📍 Online

How do people endure and resist foreign rule? Join Dr Olena Stiazhkina as she explores strategies of survival, negotiation, and defiance across the 20th–21st centuries.

🎟 Book via link: tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1902347
November 19, 2025 at 8:35 AM
An evening with one of Ukraine’s most acclaimed writers is just a week away ✨

Join us on Mon 24 Nov for an intimate dinner with Andrey Kurkov at Frame, Notting Hill — a rare chance to meet the author and ask your questions.

🎟️ Book now: tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1907399
November 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
✨ Unmissable at the UIL
Talks, art, poetry & our festive Winter Fundraising Night — this season is packed.
🎨 Kultura & Istoria courses
📖 Poetry with Yaryna Chornohuz
🎬 This is also Ukraine
🍽️ Dinner with Andrey Kurkov
🌟 Ukrainian Modernism Night
🔗 uil.org.uk/events
November 10, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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Join us for our Winter Fundraiser on 5 December at The Garden Cinema in Covent Garden! It’ll be a fun night, and you’ll be helping to support the work of the @ukrinstitute.bsky.social. Today’s the final day for early bird tickets! Book here: www.tickettailor.com/events/ukrai...
November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Only 5 days left to grab Early Bird tickets ✨
A night where Ukrainian modernism comes alive — art, jazz, wine & celebration in an Art Deco cinema.
All in support of UIL.

🎟️ tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1912822
📅 Fri 5 Dec, 6:30 PM | 📍The Garden Cinema, Covent Garden
November 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
How has feminism shaped Ukrainian contemporary art? 🎨
Join Dr Olena S. Dmytryk (Cambridge) for Ukrainian Contemporary Art and Feminism: Histories within a History
📅 uil.org.uk/events/ukrainian-contemporary-art-and-feminism-histories-within-a-history-kultura-2025/
November 5, 2025 at 8:56 AM
🐦 Early birds get the brilliance — and the better price!
Join us on 5 Dec for The UIL Winter Fundraising Night: Ukrainian Modernism — art, jazz, and connection at The Garden Cinema.
🎟️ Early birds on sale now: tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1912822
November 3, 2025 at 9:46 AM
🇺🇦 Statehood | Istoria 2025
How was Ukrainian statehood built—and what can it teach us about democracy today?

Join Dr Olena Palko (University of Basel)
🗓️ Tue 4 Nov, 18:30–20:00 | ONLINE

👉 Book now: tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1902339
November 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Explore Ukraine’s Soviet mosaics — where ideology met imagination.

Join Emma Louise Leahy online, 3 Nov, 18:30–20:00.

🎟️uil.org.uk/events/ukrainian-mosaics-of-the-soviet-period-between-official-ideology-and-national-sensibility-kultura-2025 | Kultura 2025
November 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
✨ Dinner with Andrey Kurkov — great conversation for a great cause!
Join us Mon 24 Nov, 8:30 PM at Frame, Notting Hill for an intimate evening with Ukraine’s leading writer and UIL patron.
Good food, fine wine, big ideas.

🎟️ Limited seats: tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1907399
October 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
🌍 ISTORIA 2025: Ukraine in Global History

🎓 FIRST LECTURE — TOMORROW!
🗓 Tue 28 Oct | 🕕 18:30–20:00 GMT
💻 Online
🔗 Register: tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1902336

Kick off Istoria with Professor Yaroslav Hrytsak as he traces Ukraine’s place within global empires and histories.
October 27, 2025 at 11:51 AM
📚 HAPPENING TODAY

Ukrainian Traces in the Works of Bruno Schulz | Kultura 2025
🗓 Mon 27 Oct | 🕕 18:30–20:00 GMT
💻 Online (Zoom)
👉tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1840239

Join Professor Stanley Bill (Cambridge) to explore the Ukrainian echoes shaping Bruno Schulz’s visionary world.
October 27, 2025 at 10:04 AM
🎓 Istoria: Lessons for the Present
📅 28 Oct – 16 Dec 2025 | 💻 Online

Join Dr Olesya Khromeychuk for an eight-week journey through Ukraine’s past — from empire to resilience and statehood.

🎥 Live & recorded sessions | 🧾 Certificate included
👉 tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1902167
October 24, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🌒 Ukrainian Traces in the Works of Bruno Schulz
📅 Mon 27 Oct 2025
💻 Online

Join Professor Stanley Bill (Cambridge) for a deep dive into the borderlands of Schulz’s imagination — where Polish, Jewish, and Ukrainian cultures intertwine.

🎟️ uil.org.uk/kultura-exploring-ukraines-visual-culture/
October 23, 2025 at 7:15 AM
📘 Istoria: Lessons for the Present
🗓 28 Oct – 16 Dec 2025
💻 Online course

Explore Ukraine’s history — from statehood and resistance to citizenship and democracy.

Live lectures, Q&As, recordings, and a curated handbook included.

🔗tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1902167
October 22, 2025 at 7:21 AM
🪶 Defending the Human in War Poetry | London

📅 13 Nov, 19:00–21:00
📍 Swedenborg Hall, Bloomsbury

Join Yaryna Chornohuz — Ukrainian soldier, medic, and poet — for a powerful reading written under fire on the front line.

🎟 beinghumanfestival.org/events/defending-human-war-poetry-london
Defending the Human in War Poetry (London)
What does it mean to write poetry on the front line of the bloodiest war in Europe since the Second World War?
www.beinghumanfestival.org
October 20, 2025 at 8:48 AM
🏙 Modern Architecture and Planning in Early Soviet Kharkiv
📅 Mon 20 Oct, 18:30–20:00
Discover how Kharkiv — the first capital of Soviet Ukraine — became a testing ground for socialist modernism.
Join Dr Christina E. Crawford (Emory University)
🎟 buytickets.at/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1840238
October 19, 2025 at 8:37 AM
How does history shape the present?
Join Istoria: Lessons for the Present — an 8-week online course uncovering lessons from Ukraine’s past for today’s world.
🕊️ Early bird ends 19 Oct — register now!
📅 28 Oct–16 Dec | 💻 Online
🎟️ tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1902167
October 18, 2025 at 5:32 PM
🪖Military medic and, in civilian life, writer, researcher and political scientist Kateryna Zarembo shares how, in her piece for LUR, she reflects on what choices Ukrainian cultural figures face in times of war.
The full article 🔗https://tinyurl.com/8au9xesr
October 16, 2025 at 8:10 PM
📚 Istoria: Lessons for the Present
🗓️ 28 Oct – 16 Dec | Online via Zoom

An 8-week journey with top historians uncovering how Ukraine’s past shapes today’s world.

🎟️ Early bird until 19 Oct tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1902167
October 15, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Harvard’s Serhii Plokhy joins The Guardian’s Luke Harding to confront one of the defining questions of our age:
💥 How can we stop a new nuclear arms race?

📅 Mon, 20 Oct | 🕢 7:30–8:45pm | 📍 Kiln Theatre, London
🎟️ howtoacademy.com/events/the-new-nuclear-arms-race/

In partnership with HowtoAcademy.
October 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Our acclaimed online course Istoria: Lessons for the Present is back with a fresh format, new voices, and world-class lecturers.

From 28 Oct to 16 Dec, explore eight pivotal themes in Ukrainian history.

✨ Early Bird open until 19 Oct!

🔗 tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1902167/
October 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
🎨 Folk Impulse in Ukraine’s Modernist Art | Kultura 2025
📅 13 Oct | Online

How Exter, Boichuk & Yermilov fused European modernism with Ukrainian folk art to shape a new visual language.

🗣️ Dr Katia Denysova, University of Tübingen
🎟️ tickettailor.com/events/ukrainianinstitutelondon/1840237
October 11, 2025 at 5:46 PM
🔑 Keys to Resistance: House keys hold the memory of displacement. They symbolise the refusal to forget and to submit to assimilation or destruction. Maria Sonevytsky explores how Crimean Tatars, Palestinians & Ukrainians resist forgetting ⬇️
October 10, 2025 at 9:08 AM